Might be a good idea to at least put<p><pre><code> <noscript>This page requires JavaScript</noscript>
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on your site. All I see an expanse of white.
I'm excited to try out your dating site given that it's built with Meteor and I'm a fan, but having to sign up three of my female friends to see it first is a buzz kill.<p>Perhaps you could consider a limited preview account for us HNers that doesn't let us date anyone but does let us check out what you built and sort of inspect things. That will help shine some positive light on Meteor with our crowd, many of whom will likely be unwilling to share an experimental Jewish dating site with their Facebook friends on a whim.
What are the advantages to using Meteor over Rails/Django/Express, etc., for a dating site? Sure, the client server model is compelling, but you're giving up not only the Ruby/Python ecosystem, but the Node one as well. Did you consider something like Derby.js, which uses npm and is built on express?
I liked the article a lot, got excited about giving Meteor a go for our next project, but then I checked out your website and got bummed. It takes +10 seconds to load ... the "loading " message. And then it just sits there, spinning the jewish logo.
I would be a lot more interested in meteor if it took more of a library approach and wasn't tied specifically to node.js and mongodb.<p>I understand they are moving towards this by having a protocol and different adapters for other databases.
jspot dev here. fixed speed issue with help from Nick Martin from Meteor. Turns out I was running a dev-mode proxy to auto-reload code, but Nick figured out we could bypass it in the nginx config. Should be much faster now.
I'm sorry, but why would you put something like this in your CSS:<p><pre><code> text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.5);
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It makes the text blurred and jarring.
I think Meteor is fantastic in most respects but the REST-unfriendliness of it is a little puzzling in this day and age. It would be really nice to see it play well with others.